tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post2244968380964367137..comments2015-04-21T16:38:54.658-06:00Comments on DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog: 1940 Census: Million Genealogists MarchPat Richley-Ericksonhttps://plus.google.com/107941607363534146959noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-4327240737277921102012-03-05T18:02:52.481-07:002012-03-05T18:02:52.481-07:00The 1940 census project will definitely be indexed...The 1940 census project will definitely be indexed using the current FamilySearch indexing program, which you can start learning now by indexing other projects. Just go to indexing.familysearch.org or www.familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing to download the software. Click &quot;Get Started&quot; to get to the download page.<br /><br />FamilySearch is encouraging everyone to come start indexing now so they can be ready to start indexing the census on April 2nd.<br /><br />Just 27 days left! Can&#39;t wait!<br /><br />Thanks for getting more people involved. The more people who march over and help index, the faster the census will be made searchable by name.Katie Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13262097329853727016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-60104404618046535482012-03-05T08:52:47.601-07:002012-03-05T08:52:47.601-07:00The index is going to be done by those who registe...The index is going to be done by those who register at www.the1940census.com. They will be using the FamilySearchIndexing.com interface. (I don&#39;t know if the 1940 census will show up as a project on FS Indexing also, but read on...)<br><br>This project is quite unusual in that three genealogy entities have partnered to work together -- namely FamilySearch.org, BrightSolid (owner of FindMyPast and ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk, etc.) and Archives.com. I&#39;ve heard Ancestry.com was invited to participate, but they declined. <br><br>I think working together to make records available means no duplication of work, and no duplication of costs. That provides opportunities for the cooperating entities to spend the money they save on producing the 1940 on other digital imaging/indexing projects.<br><br>NOTE: Prior to this, I&#39;ve always been reticent to consider Archives.com as anything more than a genealogy search portal, since so much of what they offer in search results is found free elsewhere on the web. However, Archives.com is the company that won the contract with NARA to host the images of the 1940 census. That website is <a href="http://www.1940census.archives.gov/" rel="nofollow">www.1940census.archives.gov</a> and it will provide the images on 2 April 2012 at 9 am Eastern.<br /><br />It remains to be seen if Archives.com is up to the task, and can handle the tremendous load on the servers when genealogists descend on the site. Since the images won&#39;t be indexed, we&#39;ll each be spending more time looking for each ancestor than when searching indexed sites.Pat Richley-Ericksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15684472865240981715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3995806.post-32846210323023725662012-03-05T08:39:04.475-07:002012-03-05T08:39:04.475-07:00How many different sites are doing the indexing? ...How many different sites are doing the indexing? I&#39;ve seen stuff from Family History, Ancestry, and others. Are they combining the efforts or all seperate?Beckynoreply@blogger.com